论文部分内容阅读
第一部分听力(略)
第二部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
21. Cellphones or mobile phones, make possible for people to talk to anyone from_______.
A. its; anywhere B. it; anywhere
C. it’s; somewhere D. it; everywhere
22. He was disappointed with his mark in the exam_______as he had worked so hard at it.
A. generally B. specially
C. especially D. particular
23. —Is that the_______painting by Vincent Van Gogh?
—No, it’s a copy.
A. unusual B. original
C. correct D. common
24. We made a mistake but then he corrected the situation_______it got worse.
A. until B. when C. before D. as
25. All the people_______at the party were his supporters.
A. present B. thankful
C. interested D. important
26. Rainforests_______and burned at such a great speed that they will disappear from the earth in the near future.
A. cut B. are cut
C. are being cut D. had been cut
27. The sooner we students adapt_______the new school, the better it is_______our studies.
A. on; for B. to; to
C. of; at D. to; for
28. What he said just now_______me of that American professor.
A. mentioned B. informed
C. reminded D. memorized
29. I suggested yesterday a meeting_______to discuss the matter.
A. should hold B. must be hold
C. would be hold D. be hold
30. The Northeastern Tiger, a rare kind of animal in China, is really_______danger present time.
A. at; in B. with; for
C. on; in D. in; at
31. If you don’t try your best, you will be_______.
A. won B. defeated
C. lost D. beat
32. Nobody knows why she_______ tell the truth while all the others were waiting.
A. wasn’t dare B. didn’t dare
C. dared to not D. dared not to
33. It is not right for parents to give_______their children want.
A. whatever B. no matter what
C. whichever D. no matter which
34. I suppose reading this book will_______your taste for music.
A. add B. add up
C. add to D. add up to
35. —Let’s go for a picnic this weekend, OK?
—_______. I love getting close to nature.
A. I couldn’t agree more
B. I’m afraid not
C. I believe not
D. I don’t think so
第二节:完形填空 (共20小题,每小题1.5分;满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
I met him first on a summer morning in 1936.I had rushed into his ugly little shop to__36__the heels(后跟) of my shoes__37__. It wasn’t much of a__38__so I waited while he did it. He greeted me with a cheerful smile. “You’re new in this neighborhood, aren’t you?”
I said I was. I had__39__into a house at the end of the street only a week__40__.
“This is a fine__41__” he said, “You’ll be happy here.”
I sat there with my shoes off, watching as he__42__ready to do the repairs. __43__he looked at the leather covering on the__44__. It was worn through. I grew impatient__45__I was rushing to meet a friend. “Please hurry,” I__46__.
He looked at me over his glasses. “Now, lady, we won’t be __47__. I want to do a good job,” He was silent a moment, “You see, I have a tradition to__48__up to.”
A __49__? In this ugly little shoes that was not different from so many others on the side streets of New York?
He __50__ have felt my surprise, for he smiled as he went on. “Yes, lady, my father and grandfather were __51__in Italy, and they were the best. My father always told me, son, do the__52__job on every shoe that__53__into the shop, and be__54__of your fine work. Do that always and you’ll have__55__ happiness and money to live on.”
36. A. put B. make C. have D. order
37. A. repaired B. sold
C. knocked D. thrown
38. A. work B. job C. thing D. matter
39. A. lived B. got C. stayed D. moved
40. A. ago B. before C. since D. early
41. A. neighbourhood B. country
C. shop D. house
42. A. made B. took C. got D. had
43. A. Happily B. Sadly
C. Proudly D. Angrily
44. A. heel B. shoe C. back D. top
45. A. that B. while C. when D. because
46. A. order B. begged
C. said D. expected
47. A. late B. over C. long D. done
48. A. look B. keep C. live D. set
49. A. job B. tradition
C. moment D. shop
50. A. couldn’t B. should
C. wouldn’t D. must
51. A. businessmen B. shoemakers
C. both D. shopkeepers
52. A. most B. first C. best D. last
53. A. brings B. comes C. sends D. hurries
54. A. proud B. kind C. fond D. able
55. A. both B. all C. much D. most
第三部分阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Hugh Troy, a well-known artist, was a very
interesting and clever person who spent most of his life playing tricks for the joy of it.
One winter in the 1920s, while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Troy got hold of a very old and ugly wastebasket with a real rhinoceros(犀牛) foot as its base. He filled it with metal weights and tied 30 feet of clothes line to either side. Late one night he and a friend carried it out onto campus(校园), pulling the lines straight between them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise no suspicions(怀疑).
The next morning someone noticed the prints and invited learned professors to come and have a look. Excitedly, they followed the rhinoceros tracks. Then they were led onto the ice covering Beeb Lake, which connected(连接) to where the school got its drinking water. There the tracks ended in a huge (very large ) hole.
It was said that half the population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water. Those who continued to drink it insisted that it tasted like rhinoceros.
56. What was Troy doing when the story began?
A. He was working as an artist.
B. He was studying in the university.
C. He was examining a rhinoceros foot.
D. He was doing rhinoceros experiments.
57. Why did Troy fill the basket with metal weights?
A. Make it easy to tie the lines.
B. Throw away these useless things.
C. Make it heavy enough for prints.
D. Support the base of the old basket.
58. Why did someone ask learned professors to examine the prints?
A. They knew where the rhinoceros existed (生存) in winter.
B. They might be able to explain what had happened.
C. They were looking for this animal just then.
D. They enjoyed following animal tracks.
59. Troy wanted people to believe that a rhinoceros________.
A. might appear on campus again
B. might exist in this area all the time
C. had dug a hole for its winter home
D. had fallen into the lake through a hole
B
Not only farmers but scientists have studied weather forecasting(预报).People, for any centuries and in all countries, have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasts. Sometimes distant objects such as hills and tall trees seem to be very clear and near. This is a sign of much water-vapour in the air, and therefore a rain will probably come.
When distant sounds (such as the noise from a train, birds singing, or people shouting) are very clearly heard, then wet and stormy weather is on the way.
Rings round the sun are a sign of coming rain.
Many people feel the coming of wet weather in their bones. Their joint aches. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, but they fly very near the ground if rainy weather or a storm is on the way. This is probably because the insects, which they are hunting, fly low at that time. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will clear up and become fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle clearly at night, fine weather will continue. If a mist appears in the early morning, just about sunrise, the day will be warm.
If the sunset is mostly red in color, the following day will be fine. When big cumulous clouds(积云) appear at sunset, the bad weather will follow the next day.
If cirrus clouds(卷云) remain quite still, fine weather will come. If a rainbow appears in the morning, then rainy weather will probably come. Most of the above sayings have been made up by people who have used their eyes and their brains to forecast the weather.
60. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, because__.
A. they like fine weather
B. they can fly high when fine weather is coming
C. they fly high to catch insects
D. they feel very happy
61. When big cumulous clouds appear at sunset, then the weather will__the next day.
A. be fine B. be bad
C. be windy D. be cloudy
62. Weather will be fine if__.
A. you see rings round the sun
B. you see the distant objects very clear and near
C. you feel pain in your bones
D. the stars twinkle clearly at night
63. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, it shows that the weather will clear up and become fine. This is because__.
A. there is much water-vapour in the air
B. there is not much water-vapour in the air
C. there is not any water-vapour in the air
D. there are all kinds of water-vapour in the air
C
One day, President Lincoln went to a party, At the gathering, a man called Douglas was repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in life and saying that he first met Lincoln when he was a shop assistant at a village shop. Finally he said, “And Mr. Lincoln was a very good waiter too.”
People burst into laughter, but they quieted down when Mr. Lincoln said quietly.
“Gentlemen, what Mr. Douglas has said is true. I did keep a grocery(食品杂货店), and I did sell cotton, candles and cigars(雪茄烟), and sometimes whisky(威士忌酒). But I remember that in those days Mr. Douglas was one of my best customers. I often stood on one side of the counter and sold whisky to Mr. Douglas on the other side, but the difference between us now is: I have left my side of the counter, but Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as firmly as ever. ”
64. Where was Douglas talking about Lincoln’s low position in life?
A. At a meeting B. In a college
C. At home D. In a restaurant
65. Why was Douglas repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in life?
A. Because he was friendly to Lincoln.
B. Because Lincoln was an example to show that an American of low position in life can become President of the U. S.
C. Because he wanted others to look down upon Lincoln.
D. Because he wanted to tell other people about Lincoln’s honesty as a shop assistant.
66. How did Lincoln win the oral competition (口头的比赛)?
A. He won it by telling of his low position in life in his early days.
B. He won it by telling of his high position in life in his early days.
C. He won it by saying Douglas was telling lies.
D. He won it by comparing his present position with Douglas’.
67. What do you suppose the sentence “Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as firmly as
ever means?”
A. Douglas was still talking about Lincoln’s low position in life.
B. Douglas was still standing on the other side of the counter.
C. Douglas remained a drunkard(酒鬼)and had not changed a bit.
D. Douglas kept on going to gatherings and talking a lot.
D
There’re five people at our table, including myself. I’ve already learnt a great deal about them in the short time we’ve been at sea, although we rarely meet except at mealtimes.
First of all, there’s Dr Stone. He’s a man of about sixty five, with gray hair and a friendly face. He gave up his work a short while ago and is now traveling round the world before he retires to some quiet country village. As a young man, he served for many years as a doctor in the Army and visited many countries. He’s told us a great deal about the city to which we are going.
Then there’s “Grandmother”. I call her that because her name escapes me. In spite of being a grandmother, she looks remarkably young, not more than fifty. She’s on her way to visit a daughter who went to Australia some years ago. Naturally she is very excited at the thought of seeing her again, and her three grandchildren, whom she has never seen.
Then there’s a man I don’t care for very much, an engineer by the name of Barlow. He has been on leave in England and is now returning to his work in Singapore.
The other person who sits at our table is Mrs. Hunt. I’ve found out hardly anything about her. She’s extremely quiet and rarely talks, except to consult the doctor about children’s various illness. She’s on her way to join her husband in India.
68. “At sea” means______.
A. at the seaside B. in the seawater
C. in the ship D. fell off the ship
69. Mr. Stone knows many cities because he________.
A. is a doctor
B. was a doctor
C. used to serve in the Army
D. is traveling round the world
70. The writer calls the second person “Grandmother” because______.
A. she looks old
B. she had three daughters
C. he respects her
D. he has forgotten her name
71. ________lives in India.
A. The doctor B. Grandmother
C. Mrs. Hunt D. Mr. Hunt
E
Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.
72. According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.
A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep
B. much more hard-working than other inventors
C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams
73. The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.
A. what kind of thread to use
B. how to design a needle which would not break
C. where to put the needle
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
74. Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.
A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B. he got some of his ideas from dreams
C. he was one of Howe’s best friends
D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
75. Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because________.
A. strange images are used to communicate ideas
B. images which have no meaning are used
C. we can never understand the real meaning
D. only specially trained people can understand them
第四部分:写作(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
此题内容已印在答题卡上,请考生用黑色签字笔在答题卡上作答。
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误,对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上划一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下面情况改正:
此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
Helen is one of my best friends. She has taught 76. ________
us English when I attended training class two 77. ________
years before. Helen always made good preparations 78. ________
for the lesson, and she tried her best to make 79. ________
her classes lively. I used to being poor in English, 80. ________
especially in written English. But now I’m able 81. ________
to write English letters and reports correct. 82. ________
I still remember how she helped me for my 83. ________
English patiently. Teachers’ Day’s come. I’m going to 84. ________
send to her a card and give her best wishes. 85. ________
第二节 书面表达 (满分25分)
以“Lessons from License”为题,根据以下四幅图,叙述一个年轻人的经历。字数100-120字。
第二部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
21. Cellphones or mobile phones, make possible for people to talk to anyone from_______.
A. its; anywhere B. it; anywhere
C. it’s; somewhere D. it; everywhere
22. He was disappointed with his mark in the exam_______as he had worked so hard at it.
A. generally B. specially
C. especially D. particular
23. —Is that the_______painting by Vincent Van Gogh?
—No, it’s a copy.
A. unusual B. original
C. correct D. common
24. We made a mistake but then he corrected the situation_______it got worse.
A. until B. when C. before D. as
25. All the people_______at the party were his supporters.
A. present B. thankful
C. interested D. important
26. Rainforests_______and burned at such a great speed that they will disappear from the earth in the near future.
A. cut B. are cut
C. are being cut D. had been cut
27. The sooner we students adapt_______the new school, the better it is_______our studies.
A. on; for B. to; to
C. of; at D. to; for
28. What he said just now_______me of that American professor.
A. mentioned B. informed
C. reminded D. memorized
29. I suggested yesterday a meeting_______to discuss the matter.
A. should hold B. must be hold
C. would be hold D. be hold
30. The Northeastern Tiger, a rare kind of animal in China, is really_______danger present time.
A. at; in B. with; for
C. on; in D. in; at
31. If you don’t try your best, you will be_______.
A. won B. defeated
C. lost D. beat
32. Nobody knows why she_______ tell the truth while all the others were waiting.
A. wasn’t dare B. didn’t dare
C. dared to not D. dared not to
33. It is not right for parents to give_______their children want.
A. whatever B. no matter what
C. whichever D. no matter which
34. I suppose reading this book will_______your taste for music.
A. add B. add up
C. add to D. add up to
35. —Let’s go for a picnic this weekend, OK?
—_______. I love getting close to nature.
A. I couldn’t agree more
B. I’m afraid not
C. I believe not
D. I don’t think so
第二节:完形填空 (共20小题,每小题1.5分;满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
I met him first on a summer morning in 1936.I had rushed into his ugly little shop to__36__the heels(后跟) of my shoes__37__. It wasn’t much of a__38__so I waited while he did it. He greeted me with a cheerful smile. “You’re new in this neighborhood, aren’t you?”
I said I was. I had__39__into a house at the end of the street only a week__40__.
“This is a fine__41__” he said, “You’ll be happy here.”
I sat there with my shoes off, watching as he__42__ready to do the repairs. __43__he looked at the leather covering on the__44__. It was worn through. I grew impatient__45__I was rushing to meet a friend. “Please hurry,” I__46__.
He looked at me over his glasses. “Now, lady, we won’t be __47__. I want to do a good job,” He was silent a moment, “You see, I have a tradition to__48__up to.”
A __49__? In this ugly little shoes that was not different from so many others on the side streets of New York?
He __50__ have felt my surprise, for he smiled as he went on. “Yes, lady, my father and grandfather were __51__in Italy, and they were the best. My father always told me, son, do the__52__job on every shoe that__53__into the shop, and be__54__of your fine work. Do that always and you’ll have__55__ happiness and money to live on.”
36. A. put B. make C. have D. order
37. A. repaired B. sold
C. knocked D. thrown
38. A. work B. job C. thing D. matter
39. A. lived B. got C. stayed D. moved
40. A. ago B. before C. since D. early
41. A. neighbourhood B. country
C. shop D. house
42. A. made B. took C. got D. had
43. A. Happily B. Sadly
C. Proudly D. Angrily
44. A. heel B. shoe C. back D. top
45. A. that B. while C. when D. because
46. A. order B. begged
C. said D. expected
47. A. late B. over C. long D. done
48. A. look B. keep C. live D. set
49. A. job B. tradition
C. moment D. shop
50. A. couldn’t B. should
C. wouldn’t D. must
51. A. businessmen B. shoemakers
C. both D. shopkeepers
52. A. most B. first C. best D. last
53. A. brings B. comes C. sends D. hurries
54. A. proud B. kind C. fond D. able
55. A. both B. all C. much D. most
第三部分阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Hugh Troy, a well-known artist, was a very
interesting and clever person who spent most of his life playing tricks for the joy of it.
One winter in the 1920s, while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Troy got hold of a very old and ugly wastebasket with a real rhinoceros(犀牛) foot as its base. He filled it with metal weights and tied 30 feet of clothes line to either side. Late one night he and a friend carried it out onto campus(校园), pulling the lines straight between them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise no suspicions(怀疑).
The next morning someone noticed the prints and invited learned professors to come and have a look. Excitedly, they followed the rhinoceros tracks. Then they were led onto the ice covering Beeb Lake, which connected(连接) to where the school got its drinking water. There the tracks ended in a huge (very large ) hole.
It was said that half the population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water. Those who continued to drink it insisted that it tasted like rhinoceros.
56. What was Troy doing when the story began?
A. He was working as an artist.
B. He was studying in the university.
C. He was examining a rhinoceros foot.
D. He was doing rhinoceros experiments.
57. Why did Troy fill the basket with metal weights?
A. Make it easy to tie the lines.
B. Throw away these useless things.
C. Make it heavy enough for prints.
D. Support the base of the old basket.
58. Why did someone ask learned professors to examine the prints?
A. They knew where the rhinoceros existed (生存) in winter.
B. They might be able to explain what had happened.
C. They were looking for this animal just then.
D. They enjoyed following animal tracks.
59. Troy wanted people to believe that a rhinoceros________.
A. might appear on campus again
B. might exist in this area all the time
C. had dug a hole for its winter home
D. had fallen into the lake through a hole
B
Not only farmers but scientists have studied weather forecasting(预报).People, for any centuries and in all countries, have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasts. Sometimes distant objects such as hills and tall trees seem to be very clear and near. This is a sign of much water-vapour in the air, and therefore a rain will probably come.
When distant sounds (such as the noise from a train, birds singing, or people shouting) are very clearly heard, then wet and stormy weather is on the way.
Rings round the sun are a sign of coming rain.
Many people feel the coming of wet weather in their bones. Their joint aches. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, but they fly very near the ground if rainy weather or a storm is on the way. This is probably because the insects, which they are hunting, fly low at that time. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will clear up and become fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle clearly at night, fine weather will continue. If a mist appears in the early morning, just about sunrise, the day will be warm.
If the sunset is mostly red in color, the following day will be fine. When big cumulous clouds(积云) appear at sunset, the bad weather will follow the next day.
If cirrus clouds(卷云) remain quite still, fine weather will come. If a rainbow appears in the morning, then rainy weather will probably come. Most of the above sayings have been made up by people who have used their eyes and their brains to forecast the weather.
60. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, because__.
A. they like fine weather
B. they can fly high when fine weather is coming
C. they fly high to catch insects
D. they feel very happy
61. When big cumulous clouds appear at sunset, then the weather will__the next day.
A. be fine B. be bad
C. be windy D. be cloudy
62. Weather will be fine if__.
A. you see rings round the sun
B. you see the distant objects very clear and near
C. you feel pain in your bones
D. the stars twinkle clearly at night
63. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, it shows that the weather will clear up and become fine. This is because__.
A. there is much water-vapour in the air
B. there is not much water-vapour in the air
C. there is not any water-vapour in the air
D. there are all kinds of water-vapour in the air
C
One day, President Lincoln went to a party, At the gathering, a man called Douglas was repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in life and saying that he first met Lincoln when he was a shop assistant at a village shop. Finally he said, “And Mr. Lincoln was a very good waiter too.”
People burst into laughter, but they quieted down when Mr. Lincoln said quietly.
“Gentlemen, what Mr. Douglas has said is true. I did keep a grocery(食品杂货店), and I did sell cotton, candles and cigars(雪茄烟), and sometimes whisky(威士忌酒). But I remember that in those days Mr. Douglas was one of my best customers. I often stood on one side of the counter and sold whisky to Mr. Douglas on the other side, but the difference between us now is: I have left my side of the counter, but Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as firmly as ever. ”
64. Where was Douglas talking about Lincoln’s low position in life?
A. At a meeting B. In a college
C. At home D. In a restaurant
65. Why was Douglas repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in life?
A. Because he was friendly to Lincoln.
B. Because Lincoln was an example to show that an American of low position in life can become President of the U. S.
C. Because he wanted others to look down upon Lincoln.
D. Because he wanted to tell other people about Lincoln’s honesty as a shop assistant.
66. How did Lincoln win the oral competition (口头的比赛)?
A. He won it by telling of his low position in life in his early days.
B. He won it by telling of his high position in life in his early days.
C. He won it by saying Douglas was telling lies.
D. He won it by comparing his present position with Douglas’.
67. What do you suppose the sentence “Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as firmly as
ever means?”
A. Douglas was still talking about Lincoln’s low position in life.
B. Douglas was still standing on the other side of the counter.
C. Douglas remained a drunkard(酒鬼)and had not changed a bit.
D. Douglas kept on going to gatherings and talking a lot.
D
There’re five people at our table, including myself. I’ve already learnt a great deal about them in the short time we’ve been at sea, although we rarely meet except at mealtimes.
First of all, there’s Dr Stone. He’s a man of about sixty five, with gray hair and a friendly face. He gave up his work a short while ago and is now traveling round the world before he retires to some quiet country village. As a young man, he served for many years as a doctor in the Army and visited many countries. He’s told us a great deal about the city to which we are going.
Then there’s “Grandmother”. I call her that because her name escapes me. In spite of being a grandmother, she looks remarkably young, not more than fifty. She’s on her way to visit a daughter who went to Australia some years ago. Naturally she is very excited at the thought of seeing her again, and her three grandchildren, whom she has never seen.
Then there’s a man I don’t care for very much, an engineer by the name of Barlow. He has been on leave in England and is now returning to his work in Singapore.
The other person who sits at our table is Mrs. Hunt. I’ve found out hardly anything about her. She’s extremely quiet and rarely talks, except to consult the doctor about children’s various illness. She’s on her way to join her husband in India.
68. “At sea” means______.
A. at the seaside B. in the seawater
C. in the ship D. fell off the ship
69. Mr. Stone knows many cities because he________.
A. is a doctor
B. was a doctor
C. used to serve in the Army
D. is traveling round the world
70. The writer calls the second person “Grandmother” because______.
A. she looks old
B. she had three daughters
C. he respects her
D. he has forgotten her name
71. ________lives in India.
A. The doctor B. Grandmother
C. Mrs. Hunt D. Mr. Hunt
E
Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.
72. According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.
A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep
B. much more hard-working than other inventors
C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams
73. The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.
A. what kind of thread to use
B. how to design a needle which would not break
C. where to put the needle
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
74. Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.
A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B. he got some of his ideas from dreams
C. he was one of Howe’s best friends
D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
75. Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because________.
A. strange images are used to communicate ideas
B. images which have no meaning are used
C. we can never understand the real meaning
D. only specially trained people can understand them
第四部分:写作(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
此题内容已印在答题卡上,请考生用黑色签字笔在答题卡上作答。
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误,对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上划一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下面情况改正:
此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
Helen is one of my best friends. She has taught 76. ________
us English when I attended training class two 77. ________
years before. Helen always made good preparations 78. ________
for the lesson, and she tried her best to make 79. ________
her classes lively. I used to being poor in English, 80. ________
especially in written English. But now I’m able 81. ________
to write English letters and reports correct. 82. ________
I still remember how she helped me for my 83. ________
English patiently. Teachers’ Day’s come. I’m going to 84. ________
send to her a card and give her best wishes. 85. ________
第二节 书面表达 (满分25分)
以“Lessons from License”为题,根据以下四幅图,叙述一个年轻人的经历。字数100-120字。